BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{
         Bucker2006Sot,
       author = "H. M. B{\"u}cker and A. Vehreschild",
       title = "Sensitivities of the {MSIS}--86 Thermosphere Model",
       booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Bonn,
         Sankt Augustin, Germany, May~28--31, 2006",
       editor = "W. Borutzky and A. Orsoni and R. Zobel",
       publisher = "European Council for Modelling and Simulation (ECMS)",
       pages = "462--465",
       address = "Nottingham",
       abstract = "Atmospheric models represent the state of the environment including interactions
         that occur in the atmosphere and are thus useful to predict future temperature and concentration
         densities of important species. A prominent example of an atmospheric model, in particular for the
         thermosphere, is the MSIS--86 model developed at NASA. In this note, we transform this computer
         program by means of the automatic differentiation tool ADIFOR to obtain a new computer program
         capable of evaluating the derivatives of the output of MSIS--86 with respect to its input. These
         sensitivities are quantified and compared with derivatives computed via numerical differentiation by
         divided differencing, demonstrating the reliability of automatic differentiation.",
       year = "2006",
       ad_area = "Atmospheric Chemistry",
       ad_tools = "ADIFOR"
}